Harry Werksman

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Screenwriter · Male

Harry M. Werksman Jr. is an American television screenwriter and producer. 2Biography Harry Werksman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but spent the first seven years of his life moving between Pittsburgh, Palm Springs, California and Scotland. He finally landed in Palm Springs only to head off to prep school in Rhode Island at the St. George’s School, after which he attended Northwestern University (BA – Political Science & History) and then graduate school at New College, Oxford in England, where he received a Master of Letters degree in early 17th-century English ecclesiastical history. After graduate school, Werksman moved to Los Angeles, California . Following a year as a corporate/political consultant and a stint working for the Shoah Foundation, he shifted gears and worked in a variety of creative capacities in the entertainment industry with an eye toward a writing career. He was a Story Consultant on Cheers: Last Call and Back to Bonanza. Co-Writer of Star Trek: A Captain's Log and William Shatner's Star Trek Memories''. A regular contributor to Sci-Fi Universe magazine and a staff writer on SF Vortex (a genre news magazine show

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From “The Self-Destruct Button”

“The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open, like it or not....And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them anymore....The problem with secrets is even when you think you're…”

Tagged: Secrets, Truth, Control

From “Much Too Much”

“When you were a kid, it was Halloween candy. You hid it from your parents and ate it until you got sick....In college, it was the heavy combo of youth, tequila and well, you know. As a surgeon, you take as much of the good as you can get because it doesn't come around nearly as often as it should.…”

Tagged: Halloween Candy, tequila, Too Much Of A Good Thing

From “Band-Aid Covers the Bullet Hole”

“As doctors, patients are always telling us how they would do our jobs. Just stitch me up, slap a Band-Aid on it and send me home. It's easy to suggest a quick solution, when you don't know much about the problem or when you don't understand the underlying cause or just how deep the wound really…”

Tagged: doctors, Patients, Band-Aid

“As doctors, as friends, as human beings, we all try to do the best we can....But the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. And just when you've gotten the lay of the land, the ground underneath you shifts. And knocks you off your feet. If you're lucky, you'll end up with nothing more than a…”

Tagged: doctors, Patients, Friends, human beings, wounds

From “Petra-Gate”

“That's great. We need a party. We'll have a theme: crossing the border. We'll have a big fence in the door and make everyone climb over it.”

Tagged: party, idea, Theme, crossing the border, climb

Harry Werksman

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